Pineapple Avocado and Pink Grapefruit Salad

  Dear Salads, I had been oblivious to your existence for most of my life, but when I did discover you finally I fell in love. The reason it took me so long to finally find you was that in the Indian food scene, salads used to be (usually) a mix of some cucumbers, onions and tomatoes topped with a fiery green chilli and a dash of lemon. Not that you are not interesting in that avatar! You certainly are! But you also have to understand that it was kind of boring to be served a “garden salad” day in …

Pasta Pesto and Pea Salad – Ina Fridays

   And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest. —P B Shelley It’s finally spring like in Colorado. Balmy sunshine one day and almost freezing the next and some high speed winds thrown in in-between. My life these days is almost like Colorado spring time weather. Peaceful and quiet now, full of high energy sometimes and bracing the winds at others. But I am not complaining. It’s just that when life has other plans, I don’t get to blog …

Sweet Potato and Black Bean Salad

For those busy days when time seems to fly, I rely heavily on salads. Especially a salad like  sweet potato and black bean salad. Filling, nutritious salads that look lively and feel like a smile on a plate are the ones I feel pulled towards. I love eating root vegetables and while I do make simple, everyday Indian curries out of those, I also love to use the root veggies in Salads. They are quick to cook , can be cooked ahead of time and the salads can be made ahead of time. In addition to the root vegetables being …

Greek Salad #Ina Fridays

It’s time for another year of celebrating the love of cooking with Ina.  This month we have the Soup/ Salads/ Sides.  Though I wanted to make a soup in the always wet weather of Seattle, I had to settle for a salad.  We are taking a small break and came out to Seattle to visit a friend and his family. After spending a very fun and enjoyable couple of days with them we moved to a small beach town and settled ourselves to enjoy some quite time by the beach and just do nothing.   My best efforts to get …

Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with Warm Cider Vinaigrette # Ina Fridays

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.  ~Albert Camus As much as one wants to hold on to summer, you can’t help but feel the beauty of fall setting in and enveloping you within. The mornings are slightly crisp and the peppers, squashes, apples are putting up a show at the farm stands and grocery stores. Speaking about squash, the butternut squash is my most favorite one. Usually a butternut squash soup marks the beginning of Autumn in my home, but this year I thought a salad will be apt to reflect how I feel. A …